Employers to pay entire SSS premiums for help earning less than P5,000
By Ronnel W. Domingo
Employers who engage household helpers at less than P5,000 a month should now shoulder fully their kasambahay’s contributions to the Social Security System.
Employers who engage household helpers at less than P5,000 a month should now shoulder fully their kasambahay’s contributions to the Social Security System.
Some 3.6 million members of the Social Security System (SSS) adversely affected by Typhoon “Pablo” can secure funds to help them recover from the disaster through a relief package that the pension fund has launched.
Where does our money go? Amid talk of a possible increase in the premiums contributed by its members before the year ends, a militant organization on Wednesday challenged the state-owned Social Security System to disclose its investments to the public.
Employees of the Social Security System got a pleasant surprise Monday when President Benigno Aquino gave each one of them a P10,000 anniversary bonus to mark the 55th founding anniversary of the SSS. The President approved the bonus after the SSS earned windfall profits last year—P25.5 billion in net earnings, 11.8 percent more than [...]
The Social Security System (SSS) in Central Visayas plans to implement the “AlkanSSSya” micro-savings program in Cebu.
The Social Security System (SSS) has increased housing loan limits while fixing and lowering interest rates across the board in an effort to adopt private-sector practices and provide competitive offerings to its members.
Keppel Subic Shipyard (KSS) has settled with the families of workers who died and were hurt in an accident inside its shipyard in October, a top provincial official said.
The Department of Health (DOH) in Eastern Visayas has declared an outbreak of typhoid fever in four Leyte towns as the number of people afflicted with the disease has reached nearly 200 and has claimed the life of a 3-year-old boy. Magilda Espinosa, district nurse supervisor at the Carigara District Hospital, said the boy, a resident of Barangay Guindapunan East in Carigara town, died at the hospital on Nov. 4.
About 400 pensioners benefited from the medical services of the Social Security System during the SSS “Pensioner’s Day” last week at SM City Cebu Trade Hall. SSS Cebu City assistant branch manager Verda Torrefranca told Cebu Daily News this is the second Pensioner’s Day for this year. Torrefranca said the activity is their way of [...]
THE Social Security System is planning to increase by 10 percent pension benefits among pensioners. Emilio S. de Quiros, SSS president and chief executive officer, said the plan had been submitted to the SSS board and was subject for its approval. Quiros said he couldn’t give a specific date for the proposal’s approval and when [...]
THE Social Security System (SSS) is lowering anew monthly interest rates for its commercial and personal loans to boost benefits for its members and beneficiaries. SSS President and Chief Operating Officer (CEO) Emilio de Quiros Jr. said that the lower interest rates were the lowest the agency had offered in 11 years. “Our current interest [...]
Manila — The Social Security System has expressed willingness to sell its stake in Philex Mining, saying an attractive offer could prompt it to give up its income-generating investment. Emilio de Quiros, president and chief executive officer of SSS, told reporters that selling its shares in the mining firm could be part of its investment [...]
